Re: Debian Locked Up
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 20:07:47 +0000 (UTC)
Camaleón wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 09:26:47 -0500, chris dunn wrote:
> >
> > For a while I've been suffering mysterious crashes where the screen
> > goes blank and the computer becomes completely unresponsive. Ctrl
> > Alt F1 and the like do not work and the mouse and keyboard become
> > non-responsive. Occasional beeps can be heard but I'm not able to
> > identify the cause of the beeps. Maybe keyboard presses, maybe
> > not.
>
> "Beeps" can indicate overheating and given the call trace, I'd say
> they could come from the graphics card :-?
Very interesting. I've been suffering some previous overheating
problems with (I think) the CPU which causes the entire system to shut
down. It is very hot on summer days here in Jamaica, and when the a.c.
is switched off it seems that the CPU will sometimes overheat. It now
looks as though the graphics card too is vulnerable.
> > I've never been able to find anything in the logs until now, but
> > found this in messages following a freeze-up that occurred
> > yesterday.
> >
> > Oct 21 16:06:13 bessie kernel: [119088.140023] Modules linked in:
> > nls_utf8 nls_cp437 vfat fat powernow_k8 mperf cpufreq_stats
> > cpufreq_userspace cpufreq_conservative cpufreq_powersave ppdev lp
> > rfcomm bnep binfmt_misc fuse nfsd nfs lockd fscache auth_rpcgss
> > nfs_acl sunrpc loop snd_intel8x0 snd_ac97_codec usb_storage uas
> > nvidia(P) ac97_bus snd_pcm snd_seq snd_timer snd_seq_device evdev
> > snd edac_core btusb bluetooth rfkill edac_mce_amd soundcore
> > snd_page_alloc pcspkr k8temp i2c_nforce2 parport_pc parport
> > i2c_core button processor ext4 mbcache jbd2 crc16 usbhid hid sr_mod
> > sg sd_mod cdrom crc_t10dif ohci_hcd ata_generic pata_amd fan floppy
> > sata_nv thermal thermal_sys libata ehci_hcd usbcore scsi_mod
> > forcedeth [last unloaded: scsi_wait_scan]
> ^^^^^^
>
> So you are using the closed source nvidia driver, right? Most of the
> time kernel developers refuse to reply to bugs when this module is
> loaded, so I would try to reproduce the bug with the nouveu module
> instead. You know, nvidia module "taints" kernel :-/
Yes closed source Nvidia driver. The only reason I went back to it was
that I was trying to get tv-out and was struggling with the Nouveau
driver procedure. I'll now go back to the Nouveau driver and persevere
with the tv-out settings. The tv-out with the Nvidia driver has not
been wildly successful anyway.
>
> (...)
>
> > Apologies for taking so much space on the list.
>
> No problem, but there are also www.pastebin.com (or the like)
> sites ;-)
>
> > This is all complete gibberish to me.
> >
> > Can anybody point me towards an explanation of what is going astray
> > here.
>
> I looks like Xorg is crashing because of the nvidia driver, so what
> driver version are you using?
Version is 280.13 really 275.28-1.
>
> Greetings,
>
Thanks a lot for the input.
--
Chris Dunn
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